Improvement in ventilating-combs or hair-pins



E. CLARK.

Ventilating-Comb or Hair Pin.

N0. 130,978. Patehted Sep .'3,18 72.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

ELIJAH CLARK, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT lN VENTlLATlNG-COMB S OR HAIR-PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,978, dated September 3, 1872.

The specification of ELIJAH CLARK, of

Louisville, in the State of Kentucky, for an Improved Ventilating-Comb or Hair-Pin.

This invention consists in providing a comb, hair-pin, or like article with air-channels opening through the teeth and the outer air, whereby the exhalations of the scalp may escape, and the hair thus be kept sweet and dry.

In the drawing, Figure l is a perspective, and Fig. 2 a section.

A is back or top. It is made tubular and may be of any section. The cavity of the back opens to the outer air. Tubular teeth 13 are affixed thereto, the cavity of which opens into the cavity of the back A. A series of holes in each tooth as at c, pierce the walls of the teeth. A ladys hair done up by this comb will be thoroughly aired and kept constantly sweet even when traveling in hot Weather.

Hair-pins of one prong may be thus made,

.the tooth being a tube with holes piercing its Witnesses:

Tnos. WM. CLARKE, J. J. HALEY. 

